Piston-rod packing.



No. 875,363. PATENTED DEC. 31, 1907. R. E. L..MARTIN.

PISTON ROD PACKING.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 3. 1907.

Wess es M will not be injuriously affected by the fluid- ROBERT EDWARD LEE MARTIN, OF PORT NECHES, TEXAS.

' PISTON-ROD PACKING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 3, 1907. Serial No. 382,007.

Patented Dec. 31, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT EDWARD LEE MARTIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Neches, in the county of Jefferson, State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Piston-Rod Packing, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

The object of my invention is 'to provide an improved piston-rod packing designed particularly for use with oil pumps wherein such types of packing as I'am acquainted with have proven unsatisfactory; and it consists in a packing comprising a plurality of beveled packing members designed to surround and to be in contact with the istonrod to be packed and made of wood, W ereby the piston-rod is subjected to a minimum amount of Wear,- in combination with a yielding beveled packing ring com osed of materia which asbestos or other sim operated upon by the pump; together with suitable means for forcing the various elements constituting the packing as a whole together-, whereby the wooden packing mem here are forced inward against the pistonrod and a tight packing secured.

With the above object in view my invention consists in the improved piston-rod packing illustrated in the various figures of the accompanying claimed in the concluding claim.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a central sectional view of my piston-rod packing, the plane thereof passing through the axis of a rod to be packed, the rod being omitted in order that the packing may be better shown; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of; one of a plurality of yieldable asbestos packing rings forming a part of my packing; Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing two wooden packing members and means for fastening said members together, said members forming part of a series of similarpacking members used in my device; Fig. 4 is-a plane view of a series of wooden packing members as shown in Fig. 3, this view illustrating the relation of the grain of thewood to the peripheral surfaces of the wooden packing members; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one ofthe wooden packing members, this view drawing, described in the following specification, and particularly also showing the grain of the wood of which the packing member is made.

In the drawings, 1 represents a portion of the head of a pump cylinder with which my packing is used, the piston-rod to be packed bein omitted to better show the packing. The ead 1 is provided with a recess 2 having an inwardly rojecting ledge 15, in which recess my pac ing is held; and 3 is a gland designed to engage and compress the packing in order to maintain a tight joint between the packing and'the iston-ro 4, 4 are bolts or moving the gland 3 to compress the packing.

My packing comprises a series of wooden packing members 5 desi ned to surround the piston-rod to be packe and to be in conround the rod to be packed is shown in Fig. 4.

In my complete packing I ordinarily em loy a plurality of such series of wooden packing members, four such series being illustrated in the complete packing shown in Fig. 1; and I ordinarily arrange said members so that two series of members contact with each other in a plane at right an les to the piston-rod as shown in Fig. 1 whic arrangement is facilitated by the form of the packing members; each member having two surfaces 8 and 9 which meet at a right angle, and a third beveled or inclined surface 10 connecting said surfaces.

, 6 represents a yieldable acking ring made preferably of asbestos and divided upon an incline as'shown at 7. This packing ring is of right angular triangular form in cross-section, and has a beveled or inclined surface at 11 designed to be in contact with the beveled surfaces 10of the wooden acking members when the packing is assem led as shown in Fig. 1. I employ a plurality of such packing rm s in my complete packing, so that the incline or beveled surfaces of the wooden packin members constituting each series thereo will be in contact with a corresponding beveled surface of a yieldin gacking ring. By this arrangement it Wil e seen that as the gland 3 is moved to tighten the packing, the beveled or inclined surfaces 11 of the ieldable packing rings will cooperate with t e beveled or inclined surfaces 10- of the wooden packing members to force said members inward against the piston-rod to be i packed; and that t metallic cylinder head.

I cut the wooden packing members 5 from a board of suitable thickness and in such a way that the grain of the wood will extend longitudinally of said members, as indicated by the parallel surface lining in Figs. 4 and 5;

' and so' that the grain in the surface 9 which comes into contact with the piston-rod to be packed will extend in the direction of movement of the said rod, as indicated in Fig. 5;

.By this arrangement the tendency of the lower edge of t e wooden packing members,

which meet the iston-rod at an acute angle,

to split off is re need to a minimum,'a better bearing surface. results, and the piston-rod is subjected to a minimum of wear. 7

As above stated, I have designed mypacking with especialreference to use in a ump desi ed for pumping oil, and (I have ound -oro wo'o en packln especially well adapted for piston-rod pac 'ngs for such pumps. In such packings .Ihave found it impossible to use yieldable packing rings made of rubber,

a packing material containing rubber, for the'reason that the oil attacks and soon destroys the rubber, thereby renderin the packing ineffective. For this reason employ asbestos}. or other material not acted u on by the oil as the material for the yieldresent t 'a le packing rings, whereby a serviceable packingandone not affected by the oil being pumped, isproduced;

I prefer to connect the-"wooden packing mem ers 5 constituting each series together in pairs, as shown in Figs.v 3 and 4 for which purpose I. rovide holes 12 adjacent abutting ends of a joining members of the series, as shown in Fig. 3, and recesses 14 extending gherefrom to the ends of the packing memers.

13 is a staple, the leg portions of which enter the holes 12 and the connecting portion of which enters into and lies within the recesses 14 when the ac members are con nected together', a be a arent from the features of construction filiiistrated in Fig. 3 of the drawing. I

t will be understood-that the vertical lines appearing in the surface 9, Fi 5, rep e intersection therewith 0 vertical planes extending longitudinally of the packmg member 5 in the ection of the the wood as indicated by the parallel ines in the surface 8. Of coursev as wood has a fibrous structure other lines indicating the grain appear as parallel arcs (because ofthe show n inperspective) in the surface 9, and with re erence .to the grain thus considered ain of" svases the piston-rod moves across the grain of the wood.

Having thus described my invention and explained the mode of operation thereof, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A piston-rod packing comprising a cylinder head; a recess therein; a series of beveled wooden packing members located in said recess; a yieldable beveled packing ring located in said recess, the beveled surface thereof being inengagement with the beveledsui'faces of said packing members; a gland in engagement with said yieldable ring; and means for forcing said gland against said ring: the arrangement of the packing members and yieldable ring belng such that the beveled surfaces thereof coact to force said members inward. as the gland is forced against the packing ring.

.2. A piston ro cylinder, head; a recess therein; a pluraltiy of series of beveled wooden acking members located in said recess; a p urality of yieldable beveled packing rings located in said recess, the'beveled surfaces thereof being in engagement with the beveled surfaces -.of said packing members a. gland in engagement with one of said ackingrings; and means for moving said g and to adjust said packing: the arrangement of the packing members and yieldable ring being such that the beveled surfaces thereof coact to force said members inward as the gland is moved to adjust the packing.

3. A pistonrod packing comprising a packing comprising a cylinder head; a recess therein; a series of beveled wooden packing members located in said recess, each member being cut in such a way that the grain of the wood extends longitudinally of said members; a yieldable beveled asbestos packing ring located in said recess, theIbeveled surface thereof being in engagement with the beveled surfaces of said packing members; a gland in engagement with said'yieldable asbestos ring and means for forcing said gland against said ring: the arrangementof the packingmembers and yielding 'ring being such that the beveled surfaces thereof coact to force said extends lon tudinally of the inner surface of said members with which surface the istonrod contacts; a eled asbetos pac ng rings located in said recess, the beveled surfaces thereof being in engagement with the beveled surfaces of said packing members a gland inengagement with one of sald packing rings and means for moving said gland to adjust said packing; the arpkurality of yieldab e bevrangernent of the packing members and yieldable ring being such that the beveled surfaces thereof coact to force said members inward as the gland is moved to adjust the packing.

5. In a piston-rod ackin a series of beveled segmental woo en packing members designed to surround a rod to be packed and to contact therewith; holes adjacent abut ting ends of members of said series; a connecting staple the legs of which enter said holes; a yieldable beveled asbestos packing a ring, the beveled surface thereof being in engagement with the beveled surfaces of said packing members; and means in engagement. with one of said packing rings for forcing said series of packing rings and said yieldable ring toward each other, whereby the beveled surfaces aforesaid coact to force the packing members inward.

This specification signed and witnessed this 18th day of June, A. D. 1907.

ROBERT EDWARD LEE MARTIN. In the presence of JAs. L. OUTRY, J. S. GIBBs. 

